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Re:Managing Kitchen Fruit Flies with a Little Shop of Horrors by zacharycohn on Friday July 21, 2023 @06:56PM (#36821095)
Pitcher plants don't need a tropical environment! There are many that are even from Canada. Ours is doing great in an indoor Seattle environment just sitting on a windowsill that only gets an hour or two of direct sun per day.
Re:Managing Kitchen Fruit Flies with a Little Shop of Horrors by zukzuk on Friday July 21, 2023 @07:24PM (#36821389)
That is very much not the environment sarracenia purpurea evolved in. I can't imagine it will survive very long. They need a lot of direct light, and they definitely need a winter dormancy period. They do not make great houseplants, at least not for more than a few weeks or months.

Tropical pitcher plants (Nepenthes) do make decent houseplants, although they struggle through the dry indoor Canadian winters here. They do seem to capture a lot of the fungus gnats I've been fighting with lately (I can see dozens and dozens in each pitcher), but not nearly enough to make a noticeable difference.

Re:Managing Kitchen Fruit Flies with a Little Shop of Horrors by zacharycohn on Friday July 21, 2023 @07:41PM (#36821527)
According to Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarracenia_purpurea), sarracenia purpurea are from Canada and the north-half of the east coast of the United States.
Re:Managing Kitchen Fruit Flies with a Little Shop of Horrors by joecool1029 on Friday July 21, 2023 @10:06PM (#36822466)
I've spotted them now numerous times around New Jersey and the first time I ever noticed one was on vacation in Newfoundland, I spotted it in bogland leading up to a landlocked fjord near gros morne (western newfoundland). I just never remembered seeing a flower like that facing the ground, so found it interesting and shot a picture and ID'd it later on.

So yeah, they absolutely grow wild but aren't an extremely prolific plant, best places to see them are usually near bogs and ponds.

Re:Managing Kitchen Fruit Flies with a Little Shop of Horrors by thebruce87m on Saturday July 22, 2023 @03:19AM (#36824120)
My Sarracenia thrives on my windowsill in Scotland. It has grown a lovely flower two years in a row.
Re:Managing Kitchen Fruit Flies with a Little Shop of Horrors by mst on Saturday July 22, 2023 @05:54AM (#36824890)
Being in NW England this seems a promising endorsement of surviving the levels of sunlight we get down south.
Re:Managing Kitchen Fruit Flies with a Little Shop of Horrors by thebruce87m on Saturday July 22, 2023 @06:03AM (#36824922)
I’m sure you’ll be fine. Both the Sarracenia and Venus Fly Trap I own have lasted years and flowered every year, although with the VFT you have to cut off the flowers or they use up too much energy.

I put the VFT outside once for it to snack and it ate a slug. Would have loved to see the look on the slugs face when the plant bit back.

Mine even survive on tap water which goes against advice, but I guess Scotlands tap water is different from most places. Just keep them in an inch of water the whole time, easiest plants ever.